Meat salter



G. H. HARPE Jan. 16, 1940.

MEAT SALTER Filed June 5, 19

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 1 fffi V 1 J a BY my Patented Jan. 1 6, 1940 2 1 6 UNITED STATES lATENT OFFICE MEAT SALTER George H. Harper, Oklahoma City, Okla. Application June 5, 1939, Serial No. 277,551

' 2 Claims. (01. 99256) The invention relates to a piercing appliance and eificient in operation, susceptible of manual for use in curing meats and more especiaily to handling for meat salting purposes, strong, duraa meat salting implement. his and inexpensive to manufacture.

The primary object of the invention is the With these and other objects in view, the inprovision of an implement of this character vention consists in the features of construction, wherein a piercing tineor pin is adapted intercombination and arrangement of parts as will be fitting a feed nozzle tool so that the latter can hereinafter more fully described in detail, illusbe carried into a. body of meat, the tine or pin trated in the accompanying drawing, which disbeing adapted to create or open a way for the closes the preferred embodiment of the invention 10 said tool so that salt can be delivered into the and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended. 10

meat for curing the same, the tool being cum in the accompanying drawing: structed to serve as a spreading funnel whereby Figure l. is a side elevation, partly in section, of

salt placed therein will be fed into the way in an implement constructed in accordancewith the the meat in a convenient manner on removal of invention and in assembled condition for meat ll the piercing tine or pin from the tool after inpiercing purposes. sertion oi the latter within the meat. Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical longitudinal Another object of the invention the provision sectional view through the implement. ofv an instrument of this character wherein the Figure 3 a sectional view taken on the line tine or pin for interfitting with the tool thereof 3-3 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the carries a wedging handle which is adapted to arrows. act upon the tool to maintain the latter in a 0011- Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view dition during insertion thereof into meat for through the implement showing" the piercing tine excluding the same from entry into the tool and or pin removed and the tool in a non-spreading in this way avoiding stoppage within tool for condition.

the free feeding or passage of salt therethrough Figure 5 is an end elevation. 3 for deposit within the meat, the delivery opera- Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 4 showing tion of the tool being effected for the deposit of the tool in a spread condition illustrating the the salt within the meat on removal of the tine or deposit of salt within the meat.

pin therefrom. Similar reference characters indicate correv A further object of the invention is the prospending parts throughout the several views in 3 vision of an implement of this character wherein the drawing.

the tool for the feeding of salt into meat involves Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates pivotally connected parts, these being spreadable generally a portion of a piece of meat to be cured after insertionof a nozzle end thereof into the by salting thereof and B the salting implement 5 meat so that salt delivered thereby can become respectively. deposited in the said meat while these parts The salting implement B comprises a tool increate a funnel acting end receptive to salt so that volving a pair of lever-like parts 10 which are it will flow for deposit in the meat through the formed to present an elongated nozzle-like pornozzle end of such tool on spreading thereof, the tion II and a funnel-like portion 112, respectively. tool being advanced to a penetrating position The nozzle-like portion H is constituted by op- 4-0 within the meat by a piercing tine or pin which posed channeled jaws 53, these being in matched initially interiits with the nozzle and funnel-like relation to each other and are of substantially ends of said tool and on interfitting thereof elimi- L-form in cross section so that when these jaws nates any possibility of the spreading of the parts H are closed one to the other the cross sectional of the tool and assures proper penetrating ad-- formation of the nozzle portion H will be sub- 5 vancement thereto within the meat. stantially square creating a correspondingly A still further object of the invention is the shaped passage 14 throughout the extent of said provision of an implement of this character nozzle portion. The free ends of these jaws I3 wherein unskilled operators can readily cure meat are reversely beveled at l5 to present a knife edge by insertion of salt therein, the meat being readto the. nozzle portion H for assuring easy penetra- 5 ily and easily pierced for the deposit of salt tion thereof within the meat. therein. The funnel-like portion I2 of the tool is con- A still further object of the invention is the stituted by opposed hollowed or concave-conprovision of an implement of this character which vexed handles 16, these being outwardly arched u issimple in its construction, thoroughly reliable in cross section and join the jaws l3 at the u shouldered area l1 therebetween. Next to this area I! and engaged in overlaps l8 to the handles I6 are pivots I9 connecting the two parts of the said tool so that when pressure is applied to the handle I5 and the funnel-like portion I2 is emptied the jaws I3 can be spread apart from each other, this being eiiected when the nozzle portion II has been advanced into the meat, a portion thereof being indicated at A.

When the funnel-like end I2 constituted by the handles I6 is empty and the nozzle portion I I has been extended into the meat the said funnel-like portion receives a charge of salt and the latter by gravity falls into the nozzle-like portion N then by pressing upon the handles IS the jaws constituting the nozzle-like portion can be spread apart with the result that a deposit of salt will occur in the meat, the salt being indicated at 20 for the curing of the meat.

The implement in addition to the tool includes a piercing element involving a piercing tine or pin 2I having a pointed outer end or tip 22 and a grip or handle end 23, the latter being formed with a wedging area 24 which is accommodated between the handles I6 of the tool when the latter are in position to have the jaws I3 in abutting matched relation to each other as will appear from Figure 1 of the drawing. The tine or pin 2| is adapted for telescopically fitting within the nozzleportion II of the tool and is of a length slightly greater than this portion so that its tip or end 22 protrudes beyond the knife edge I5. In this position of the tine or pin 2| the wedging area 24 of the grip or handle 23 will have been inserted in the funnel-like portion l2 of the tool as created by the handle I6 with the result that the jaws I3 be sustained in matched contacting relation to each other and thereby eliminating seepage of the fibers of the meat to between the said jaws I3 and the tine or pin 2|. In this way stoppage in the nozzle portion I is avoided when the implement is forced into the meat A. After the tool, that is, the nozzle portion H, has been fully inserted in the meat the tine or pin 2| is extracted from said tool and thereafter salt 20 is poured into the funnel-like portion |2 to flow into the nozzle portion II of said'tool. When this nozzle portion II is filled with the salt, pressure is applied to the handle I6 spreading the jaws I3 555m from each other with the result that the salt 20 will become deposited in the meat filling the way created therein both by the tool and the piercing implement.

The jaws I3 cannot spread apart from each other until the tine or pin 2| with the area 24 of the grip or handle 23 have become withdrawn from the tool. It is of course understood that the implement involves the tool and the piercing element, these being interfitted with each other forenabling convenient deposit of ,salt within the meat. The piercing element acts as a pilot for the tool and when withdrawn from the latter salt can be deposited within the meat therethrough for the curing of the said meat.

The shoulder area I'I limits the insertion of the jaws I3 constituting the nozzle portion l I into the meat.

What is claimed is:

l. A meat salter comprising a salt feeding tool having pivotally connected jaws for opening and closing movements with relation'to each other and forming a nozzle when closed with respect to each other, handles continued from said jaws in overlapped interfitted relation to each other for forming a feeding funnel communicative with the nozzle when the jaws are closed with relation to each other, and a piercing element having a pointed tine interfitting the said jaws when closed with respect toeac'n other on insertion of said element through said funnel and having a wedging grip for wedging engagement in the funnel between the handles for holding the jawstogether when the pointed tine is interfitted therewith.

2. A meat salter comprising a salt feeding tool I having pivotally connected jaws for opening and closing movements with relation to each other and forming a nozzlewhen closed with respect to each other, handles continued from said jaws in overlapped interfitted relation to each other for forming a feeding funnel communicative with the nozzle when the jaws are closed with relation to each other, a piercing element having a pointed tine interfittingthe said jaws when closed with respect to each other on insertion of said element through said funnel and having a wedging grip for wedging engagement in the funnel between the handles for holding the jaws together when the pointed tine is interfitted therewith, and beveled knife edges formed at the outer free ends of said jaws.

GEORGE H. HARPER. 

